Introduction:
Building a model of our solar system is a good way of learning
about earth and the other planets in our solar system that revolve
around the sun. At a primary level (Grades 1 -4), you build your
model, paint and name the planets. At a Elementary level (Grades
4-6), you will also include the distances using small flags or
a table attached to your project display. At a Intermediate level,
you must try to build a scale model of the solar system.

Material
and step by step instructions
You may purchase a kit for this project from MiniScience.com
or you may decide to collect the information and obtain the material
locally. You can use plastic balls made of hard foam and paint
them to represent planets. Depending on the total size of your
model, you may connect your planets and the sun using hard wire
or you may decide to hang them with thread or wire.

Details of
this project
More details of this project is available in the members section
of ScienceProject.com web site. This section also includes
a program that calculates the size of planets and distances based
on the size of your model sun in order to make a scale model. Materials
for this project are available locally in most areas.